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Idea that there is something inherently selfish-seeming or even (not to put a moral judgment on it) something actually *selfish* or self-involved about mental illness or illness generally — when we are sick our sickness tends to become a predominant concern — and this creeps into the tone of The Bell Jar’s second half; meanwhile, Wallace’s short story The Depressed Person (which very probably owes a debt to The Bell Jar) somewhat obviates this issue by tackling it head on: the character is really trying not to make it all about himself but in so doing is comically only making it worse.

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